WIBU To ask for a different lady to scan my shopping?

I swear you are misinterpreting what the little bank authorisation box says.
It’ll quote the expected total and confirm they’ll look for that amount come the day, but if you carry on and check out there and then, I bet you it’ll go through even if you are skint until next morning.
(Well, naturally your pay needs to be in by the time the shopping’s picked next day, but that must be obvious)

Exactly and other PP have said the same, but for some reason OP is insisting this doesn’t work for her and ‘has tired many times’ even though the first time is was suggested her reply was:

I believe they check your card to make sure you've got the money on there, and I wouldn't have on, say, a Tuesday, I'd only have my weekly spending money which isn't as much as I spend on a big shop.

If you had 80 items to be rescanned then you must have had a huge shop. I work in retail and have never seen anybody need that many in a random check even at Christmas unless you failed the check and needed a full rescan

Are people not afraid (God or karma to you) to even have thoughts like that, never mind acting on them? Apart from good manners and civility and all that? It is good you feel bad about it, it means your heart is in the right place even if your head overruled it.

I also get them about 50% of the time, a bit more often in Sainsburys if anything. It drives me crackers! I wonder if it's because it's a large amount of items? I have thought about going back to using the manned checkout but they have so few of them on that there's usually a huge queue so you can't win.

I expect them to do a different job. Th bb ge ones at my local Morrisons are way past retirement age and possibly earning extra. Fair enough, but not on the tills.

OT but I used to do that until one fateful week when I was too busy and forgot to change the contents of my basket.

It was during Covid and I had to put a mask on as I couldn’t look the delivery guy in the eye 😅 Three bottles of Beefeater. And I still had to go to the shops as we had nothing in 😂

I get having to wait until being paid it's a bugger out there at the moment but have you considered a credit card? Order on a Tuesday it'll probably be taken on Thursday anyway or if not you can log on on Thursday as soon as your paid this might save you the stress?

I don't blame you OP, I'm getting second-hand sweaty panic at the thought of having 15 mins to cross town for the school run, finish the shop bang on time...and then i get a rescan...and see the world's slowest shop assistant ambling towards me with the scanner😱😱

I also believe you that you can't get it delivered - apart from anything else you probably don't want to fork out an extra 10-20 quid a month delivery charge!

OP they 100% don't take the money until you have your shopping picked. I order every single week - in fact I order my slots 4 weeks in advance, usually with pennies in my account for a £150+ shop. They don't make sure you have the money at all, they just confirm your card is valid. Some places used to take a penny per time you amended it (Asda) but I've shopped online with Tesco for 16 years every week and never had this issue.

I just check out with a couple of bottles of gin to secure the slot.

Age is one thing but disability is something else if it stops you doing a job.

I didn’t get a job at Blockbuster back in the day - I had a training session and they said I was too slow.

I have ADHD and take longer to pick things up. It’s a disability. But if I can’t do the job I can’t do the job, having a disability doesn’t mean they have to employ me.

The issue would be if they refused to even interview me because I had ADHD. But disabilities can genuinely mean that you’re unable to do certain jobs to the required standard. It’s obvious really.

The issue here isn’t the staff member’s age, it’s that she’s really slow.

I go shopping on Thursdays. And that is that. For GOODNESS SAKE.

Then use a normal check out, you said yourself it’s so quiet the time you go.

It’s like you want to whinge and wine about how busy and difficult your life is when no one if forcing you to use a self scanner which often flags up checks for you.

I know you have had a lot of people saying online shopping but I really think this would make life easier. You can book the slot way in advance and they don’t take the money until the morning of delivery. If you are in of an evening you can book the cheaper 4 hour slots.

Are you sure it is literally ‘available’ funds, or is it ‘authorised’? I’m repeating what I have just said to another person, so forgive me:
Tesco in Ireland let me finalise my basket up til 11.45 the night before delivery, though my pension’s not in until next morning each week, and funds are usually pretty low that night.
The bank authorisation sought for a biggish shop isn’t checking the cash is there at that moment (though I’m not sure what is being checked, possibly the card’s bona fides) but I know for certain Tesco only seek to take the money once the shopping has physically been accomplished next day by their pickers in the store.
I cannot believe Tesco in Ireland is easier on customers than it is on their British ones, as that would be totally out of character.

I urge you to try a shop this way, booked for the day suiting you but finalised when your pay isn’t yet in. It should be plain sailing.
(Anyway think about it: if they took the money before the day they actually take the items from the shelves, there'd be all manner of refund entanglements due to lack of stock etc for everyone, every week!
The bank transaction needs to be up close with the shopping being done ‘on the ground’.)

They would have to display exactly how her performance is not in line with what the business expects (eg if they have a specific time KPI for scan and go). A couple of customers who ‘don’t have time for this’ and have deemed her unsuitable is not a good enough reason.

OP, not to derail, but just an aside....given you still have debts related to the ex relationship, did you take advice on getting a DRO to mitigate the outlay?

Just a thought that it might help to reduce costs if you're having to work 7 days a week to keep afloat. I take it you've had an appt with CAB?

They don’t
when I had absolutely zilch money I would time it for pay day
they do it with petrol because you’ve had the goods before you pay

You could do a smaller shop on a Thursday (so it wouldn’t be a huge amount of items if you did get a rescan) then book a main order to be delivered in an evening.

Well she might be flagged for other (illegal) reasons, including her demographic. Or it might be the products she buys.

Sometimes I just know I’ve flagged myself, eg for doubling back to the other side of the supermarket or for scanning something and then putting it back. They have all sorts of reasons for flagged you, not all of which mean you’ve done something wrong.

Scan as you go is designed for as many items as you want? Sainsbury’s only do a random scan probably every 20 shops or so in my experience. Usually 10 items, if it’s any more than that I just go through a till, takes too long